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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-15
PERSONAL MENTION.

THE girls OF St. Louis may be ignor-
ant Of psrlor etiquette, but they can
beat ths world at gum chewing.
AN Iowa bankrupt is named Mr..
Ohills. Perhaps he has been taking
qninine-that is said to break up
chilis.
| PHILADELPHIA Record: Professor W.
G. Sumner defines protection as "the
ism which teaches that waste means
wealth"
Boston contains 10000 m re women
than men. II woman suffrage were
to be adopted what revolution there
would be in that city.
PRESIDENT GARRETT, of the Balti-
more and Ohio, is reported to possess
100 pairs of trousers. He is now hav.
ing his measure taken for a new
bridge.
THERE is Philadelphia lawyer who
deserves hanging. He was mean
enough to suggest decorate 6 the Di-
voIce Court with Christmas greens
and the mistletoe.
EvARTs has rival in Lamar. The
latter has made a speech containing
one sentences page in length. The
former is now pa wing the unabridged
in wild eyed despair.
WAS is the principal business of
the great powers Of EuropeP Seeing
how much territory they can steal
without being knocked on their heads
by their robber neighbors.
A HOMESTEAD is thing that grows;
no man ever built one. 1t is no, a
thing that grows organically like tree,
but thing that grows under a success
sion Of graphic touches, like picture.
ROCHESTER Herald, All, this matter
of fame is an ephemersl thing. Here
is the st. Louis Chronicle saying that
"Jones, of Florida, who usad to pay
the freight, now seems unable to do
SO"
Why does the New York World
pre- end to be Democratic in one col.
umn and Republican in another2 L,
the public is fond of humbuggery p
ATLANTA Constitution.
A SOUTH CAROLINA woman rode
twenty. five miles through a drenching
rain to marry the man she loved.
Seems as though man would be
rather shy about marrying a woman
with go much energy as that.
IT Is we'll that in this country we do
not have to 90 very far back in our an
cestry, or we might run against more
looms andIanvils and shirtsleeves than
would be agreeable-thst 10, il we
claim to be the elite.
GALVESTON News A Maine paper,
the Portland advertiser, pc ntedly re-
marks that If prohibition cannot be
enforced in Maine, it is difficult to see
how 1t could be carried out any better
in a State of the vast area ard sparse
population Of Texas.
PHILADELPHIA Record: The New
York Herald is Butlerlzing poor Grady,
of the Atlanta Constitution, by running
him for Vice President on a suppositi-
tious Democratic ticket. This sort Of
martyTdom is very much like burning
a man in efigy when his back hap
pens to be turned.
GEN. LEW WALLACE, the hero OF
Wallace, zonsres and ex Minister to
Turkey, does not believe in carrying
high priced timekeepers. In recent
interview he said: GAIL the time was
Governor of New Mexico 1 carried a
$40 nickel plated watch. That kind
is jult as good to hold up your hands
with as the finest $500 gold timer.
A man who wears . watch two things must
do,
Pocket his watch and watch his pocket too"
The Forest Fires--A Rain Happily
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-15
OUR SINGERS ABROAD.

These song birds from America, they come
across the sea
To carol in our operas and take the upper + (;
lime was when dark Italians held all the
|! ric STAGE,
Time was when lair haired Teutons were the
operate rage;
But now La Belle Americana has come
across the foam
To take the British dollars back to many q
Western home.
Nevada's here, and NorSicR, and Brooch, and
Minnie Hauk,
And others who but lately sang in Boston
and New York;
Hastreiter. DOTH, Engle, too, and Russell
and Van Zandt,
And brilliant Marie Decca to America we
grant;
Miss Thursby, Henschel, o good, with our
Sterling and Hope Glenn,
Could fifty claim Americas most eulogistic
pen.
How is it that Americans have this great
gift Of song,
That fast they come, ard faster still, to join
the choral throng?
One fancies that each baby soul in infancy
divines
The ID usic Of their mighty streams, the wind
harp in the pines;
And then we hear in London town-and who
would erudge the fee2-
The message Mississippi brings from noun
tain unto sea?
London Punch.
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Mareeis OF NntnrnL Gna.

The American Bankers Association
had a holiday recently, but the rare fun
involved considerable hard work. The
visitors encountered numberlcss phases
OF the fuel revolution consequent upon
the introduction of NATURAL gas. II is
only two years since this revolution oc-
CURED, and now some 500 iron and glass
industries in the vicinity of Pittsburg,
Pa, are dependent on natural gas for
fuel, and there are altogether some 30.
900 consumers. So much Is the utilize
OF this fuel appreciated that most of the
housemaids refuse to enter service in any
family not using this gas as a fuel The
present consumption reaches the enor-
nous bulk of more than 300, 600, 600 cubic
feet daily in the industries and homes
above referred to. As the steamer
moved down the Monongahola with the
hundreds of visitors on board, the scene
Tor miles was one Of such magnifcchce
as had never before been witnessed bv
those unused to tn phenomena, for the
entire waterway was illuminated by
great clouds of shifting fire high in air
as the gas shot heavenward from the
numerous tall stand pipes along the
banks.
Other phenomena were studied. 1t has
usually been considered difficult feat
to set the river afire, but they can do il
from Pittsburg. Suddenly flame shot
500 feet into the air from the surface OF
the Allegheny, aud that great Jet, or
rather bank OF water was all aaame. II
was an odd sight to see burning stream
Of water playing high in the air, but this
gas will lift heavy column Of water
and burn while il il doing Il.
A little farther on and four great stand
pipes $50 feet high shot upward prca
columns Of gas which roared like
thunder and which were ignited by fir.
ing rockets into the shooting gas. Then
monster pillar Of cvcrchaneina fire
hung like wide spreading cloud over
head, and the appearance was awful.
The days festivities closed with n visit
TO the great Westinghouse electric
I works
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

A hailstono with nucleus of gypsum,
probably sucked up in waterspout, fell
in recent shower in France.
Cicero relates that the Chaldcans and
Bactrians claimed celestial observations
for 47o, 900 years; hut, taking day as
an astronomical period, it becomes 1900
years, or taking a moon lunar, %, 600
years.
The pruning of vines has been invcsti-
+, gated by III. Mueller, who finds that the
proper time is while the fruit is ripcn-
ing, and that the young shoots should
be cut, as their development requires
much sugar.
At various magnetic observatorios on
the continent of Europe slight disturb
anccs were registered, which apparently
were connected in time with the late
earthquakes. NJ Mascart believes that
more careful examination of the records
OF different observations will show the
connection which may exist between the
two disturbances
A professor claims TO have discovered
that a grain of alum in q gallon OF water
Will reduce the colonies of bactcrla-if
the water is sufficiently infestcd--irom
800 to about so and that the remain
ing bacteria viii be the large ones and
can easily DC taken out by altering. The
required amount of alum, he says, Is too
small to be detected by taste and is not
harmful to health.
A series of experiments recently made
by French metallurgist are stated to
have proved that steel loses weiaht by
rust about twice as rapidly as cast iron
when exposed TO moist air. Acidu-
lated water was found to dissolve cast
iron much more rapidly than steel This
would indicate that steel bridges are
less affected by tho acids contained in
the smoke of locomotives than iron ones
Ninc-tcnths of wild animals in con
hnement arc said by medical writer to
DO subject to heart disease; but all ami
mails have their peculiarities. Elephants
are subject to many diseases, the most
common and fatal of which i, rheuma-
tism. Monkeys and balloons generally
die from bronchial affections and heart
disease, and suffer much from typhoid
ever. Animals of the feline race arc
most subject to dysentery and heart
disease; and their prey, deer antelopcs,
etc, are most liable to tho same allie
tons. Animals of the canine tribe are
the healthicst, but too many wolves
must not be kept together, or they will
eat one another.
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Canlmon Myths.

Ignorant folk, wonder-mongers and
even scientific observers have dissem-
mated many erroneous and exaggcra-
ted notions which are not readily Grad
icated. We nre still told for instance,
OF the Norwegian maelstrom, fright
full whirling chasm in tho sea capable
OF sucking down tho largest ships,
though in reality this fearful swhirl-
pool Ia simply run of the tide
through n Bloping channel, is rarely
dangerous, and then chiefly on account
OF the rocks on which it may draw ves-
sells. Sir John Herschcl gave his in
dorsement to the statement that stars
may DO seen In the daytime from the
bottom OF well, Tut this has been
proven to DO an error by tests from
shaft nearly half n mi'e deep. Mr..
John Muidock has ocently shown that
the Eskimos do not, as textbooks of
physiology affirm, doe through their
long winter nights, keeping up their
bodily heat by enormous meals OF raw
blubbcr and lamp-oil, but that their
winter life is active, their food mostly
cooked and their CONSUMPTION of oil
not excessive. A still W dely accepted
belief IL that the hair-snako liz q won
derful transformation of u horses hair
when kept in water, though these odd
creatures (known TO 8 fence as Gordius
q iuaticus) really grow from eggs. and
IN early stages inhabit tho bodies Of
insects. n very old idea, without
foundation in fact, is that crocodiles
shed mournful tears, while stories of
toads imprisoned in solid rock are nu-
merous AMI supported by much eyi-
dence, bit have probably resulted
from imperfect observation. Accounts
OF tho termination of grain from the
mummy-pits OF Egypt have arisen from
deception practiccd by the Arabs in
placing fresh seeds with the belong.
ings of the mummios. Though now
known to be incorrect, the inference
that the moon influences the weather
is very natural one to unframed OBJ
servers, and is far les absurd than
thousand vagar os that gain credence,
such Us the dropping OF live reptiles
from the clouds, the election of live
snakes and other creatures from the
human stomach, tho localization of
water by n forked stick, the extin-
gnishment of FIRE by sunshine, etc.
ArkdRsdtO 1idU, Ter
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Why People Marry.

1t would be an interesting and in
structive lesson if, in a community of
married people representing various So
cial grades, We could request the indi-
vidua,s, both husban DIS and wives, to
inform us clearly aud truthfully of the
reasons which induced them to select
their respective partners for life. 1t
would be found in many instance that
the most insignificant triflcs had influ
enced many of them in this most deli
cate matter
As an instance in point, takc the case
of the wealthy young Quaker who mar
Rcd his wife simply because she was the
happy possessor of a pincushion
Here is the story: lie had been out
and his necktic became disarranged,
when happening to meet two young la
dies of his own persuasion with whom
he was acquainted, he inquired whether
either of them could give him pin. One
of the girls Immediately produced from
her pocket natty little pincushion full
of pins which she handed to him with a
bewitching smile. 1t is more than
probable that this smile and the good
looks of the fair donor had great deal
to do with the young fellows choice, as
he proposed TO her and was accepted the
next day. But he always sturdily main
tanned that he was influenced at the time
by nothing more than the pincushion.
Another illustration from life: A
well educated and intelligent gentleman,
on being asked how he came to select
the young woman who eventually be-
came his wife, and whom he had first
met in a we'll known drapery establish
ment, replied: Because observed how
nimbly, yet gracefully, she mounted a
ladder"
We once heard of a young man who
remarked that he had chosen his wife
an amiablc, highly accomplished girl
and a splendid vocalist-'Just because
she had eaten such hearty dinner at
picnic
Hundreds of similar cases could be
adduced, but the foregoing examples
will show that small mltters may influ,
ence many in their choice of life
partner - London Paper.
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Persian Housewives.

The Persian lady is good housewife.
She rises with the dawn, she Is liberal
in her housekeeping, kind to her servants,
little profuse, perhaps, but then living
is cheap in the cast The keys of every
thing are in the keeping of tho mistress
of the house, and she is usually exact in
her accounts. All the vast stock of
conserves and sweotmcats, syrups for the
preparation of sherbets, and pickles in
endless variety are either prepared by
her own fingers or under her eyes. Nor
docs she disdain to bc n confec-
toner and maker of pastry As eve
ming approaches-thc long, elaborate
Persian dinner being partaken of among
the upper classes 10y the sexes apart-shc
prepares to entertain her husband; She
viii play to him upon the lutte or har-
monica; she will sing to him, or read him
20 sleep with poetry; or she will play
with him at back CANNON or chess. or
recite to him long stories in the style of
''The Arabian Nights When he is sick
she nurses him, and it is her pride to see
that his wardrobe is we'll supplied and
his servants well clad She will intrigue
for him, plead for him, lie for him. sh
will carry her complaisance even so far
as to find another wife for him. LIST.
James's Gazette.
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Caught BIZ a Clani.

A traveller among the South Sea
islands gives an account of huge clans
$50 big that a single shell makes an
admirable bath for n child the YER,
touching of which is sometimes attend
ed with fatal consequences. Diyina
for CLANS generally falls to the shnra
of the women, and many one has met
her doom from getting nipped bt the
ponderous dentated shell and so held
prisoner in the depths, never 10 fise
again. Quito recently poor fellow
fishing on one of tile Paumotu atolls
Owed TO the bottom of the lagoon, feel.
ing for pearl oysters. when he unlucki-
ly slipped the fingers OF his left h nd
into gaping clam-shell, which closed
and held him in vise. The she'll Law
IN q hole in the coral, 80 that il was
impossible to reach tho byssus by
which 1T is moored in that safe harbor.
The wretched man, in agony of mind
and body, severed his own fingers with
his knife and rose 90 the surface, hay
ing, indeed, escaped drowning, but be.
ing manned for life. There have been
other cases whore a diver thus impris-
oned has, with greater deliberaiion.
contrived to insert his knife into the
she'll and so force it open sufficiently TO
release his other hand The 4fdo-
0dtt'.
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Fashion Notes.

Simple forms are preferred in all out
of door wraps.
The velvet jockey cap is favoritC
with young girls still.
The belt is worn very generally with
different styles of corsage.
siIk-warp corduroy is meeting with
considerable favor as dress material
Tan colored undressed kid gloves, in
fourteen shades, are shown to be worn
with winter costumes
Very attractive are those ornamental
buttons of Cordova leather which arc
shown on English wraps.
There are great many new styles in
heavy braid trimmings, tho most fashion
able Of all sorts of decoration.
Vests of tan colored corded silk, and
tan coloyed galloon are used to trim
black dresses OF various kinds.
The enamel buttons with pictures of
the time of Louis XIV, are most beautiful
and would enrich any garment.
Long and impossible names are given
to the new coIors which are really old
coiors made again the fashion.
There is a great variety in the cor
sages of the new costumes, but all are
fanciful and somewhat elaborate.
Skirts are short for the street, domi-
trained for dinners, five o'clock teas. etc.
and full trained for evening wear.
There is serpent blue as well as
green by this disagreeablc name, and
the blue is certainly pretty If its name is
not.
The milkmaid skirt with its highland
bouiTant drapery, is a pretty fashion for
the lowered fabrics worn for house cos
tunes.
The short skirt IS still fashionable OK
cept for coremonious occasions and is
always quite the thing for very young
ladies.
The white braids used to trim ali
sorts Of colorcd fabrics arc effective on
half tints, such as French gray, mauv,
and the biscuit shades
Ivory white satin, faille Franchise
and MORE antique are the approved ma
tcrid for rich wedding gowns, and IN,
trimmings are Of laco or embroidered
lissc.
Bodies which have the sidcs pro
longcd into panels which fall loosely Q,
Che foot Of the skirt are again IN vogue
and the panels are decorated and lined
in various ways
The most fashionable drcssmakers ex
crciso their ingenuity to make the side
Of dress skirts O. Dat rs possible IN ci
feet. in spite Of ganiturc, and tho bacl
as fall and bouaant rs is becoming 4
The weaver
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Revival Of the Estleure.

j BE- understood chat opera glass bags
aud the dainty tHe plush pockets for
handkerehief. that our bellies have for
The past year been wont to carry about
with them are Go bee suporscIeI this
season by the regular Old fashioncd reo
culcs that orr gaadmothcr used TO de-.
Eight ln And, indeed. this fashion
viii certainly provoa charming one In
many ways a fashionable woman a.
uowada5 Obliged TO take SO manv I'm.
disponsablo articles about with her that
30 IS absolutely necessary 20 have some
oonycnicnt receptacle for them. So
That they shall De near 90 hand Ordiaa.
Iy De-" pockets arc becoming moro ob.
solcic. principally because modistos will
persist iu putting them in such cut of
thc-way places Chat it IS impossible,
TO gain access TO them. Every
body viii surely welcome our grand
moihcrs rciiculos ns pleasing change
or course, one must possess as many ret
icule as gowns satin and silk ones 4,
match evening toilets. and othcr o.
more sober cast Tor shopping purpose
They may bc ornamcnted With lace an,
flower or fur and feathers, and the,
may contain anything from baHst
handkerchief TO the htet design b.
comel bon-bou boxes SO any rate
every woman Of tasto will admit that
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An Araa Mnrriare rar.r

In an Ayrshire village, the other day,
somewhat noteworthy marriage was
celebrated. The bride, bridegroom,
and guests had all reached good age,
the youngest present having attained the
age of 90. The bridegroom was ~ years
of age; bride, 80; groomsman, So; and
bridesmaid, CD years. The remainder of
the company embraced two lady guests,
one of whom had seen Oh summers, while
the other had attained the respectable
age of 80. 1t will thus be seen that the
aggregate ages of the six who formed
tho bridal party reached the respecta BILE
total OF 424 years. 1t may readily be
surmised that the marriage feast was a
very quiet affair; there was no stripping
1t on the light fantastic toe" no scraping
Of fiddle, and no attempts at musical
performances. In fact the company
eomportel themselves with a decorum
perfectly consistent with their years, and
even their nearest ncighbor could not
nave imagined that marriage feast was
beng held in their neighborhood. -
Scottish American.
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Ho,o nc Ola Egyptians worked.

Arnaudcau publishes ia the Revue
scientihquc On essay Ipon the question
how the ancient Egyptians managed 10
transport and lift the immense rocks
found on the top Of temples md how
they raised their obclisks. lie thinks
they took advantage Of the rise Of the
Nile. Clothing block with as much
wood as was necessary % raise il a little
from the ground they pushed il forward
70 where they wanted it TO lie and held
it 10 position while thcy removed the
wood, which lefi it IN the exact place Il
was TO occupy An obclisk was lifted
horizontally and pushed to whore thoy
wanted To erect &C. There they took
wood away from tho base aud fastened
20 tho TOP, which caused the foot 70
sink aud Tho top to rise.
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ladies DEPARTMENT.
Hoods.

Hoods are sgair added to every sort
OF wearing apparel upon which they can
appropriately be placed Clerical hoods
are worn upon the bucks Of the close fit
ting English top coats of tweed, as well
as upon many other models. Though
most hoods are ornamental, some are
designed to be useful as WELL Rounded,
nat, pointed, SHRED, plcated, and even
hcart-shape, they appear upon New
markets, pclerincs, visitcs, listers, tea
gowns, matinecs, watcrproofs, and
french-made night-drcsscs, of Chinese
washing, silk-lacc trimmed New York
Post.
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woman In tho Past.

Girls who consider their advantages
inferior 20 those of their brothers have
only to turn back few pages Of history,
in order to extract comfort from the
contrast of melancholy past with a
brilliant present. There was time
scarcely to be understood in these days
when woman was little more than a
slave and ornamental appendage. Dur
ing the Middle Ages and a follow NO
period, no one would have dreamed of
doubling her inferiority.
In the seventeenth century "woman
was still regarded as the inferior Of
man in the lower classes as drudge.
IN the higher as an ornament.
John Stuart Mill, IN sarcastic refer
ence TO this time, thus characterizes il;
"Scme generations ago, when satires on
women were in vogue, and men thought
Il clever thing to insult women for
being what men made them
Under such conditions, il can scarcely
be q subject Of wonder that women did
not attain their highest development
They may well have deserved some Of
tho prevalent medieval proverbs. Of
which the following are specimens:
Women and horses must be beaten %
Women and money arc the cause Of
OIL evil"
Women keep only secrets which they
do not know"
Between womans yes and no there
ISN'T room for the point Of a needle %
Youths Companion.
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The traffic DO female children md
young women may be seen in SIS worst
forms among the floating population of
the Canton river where girl is as much
an article 81 money valuation az 70 sam
pom or buffalo The standard Price
for q good-looking girl 70 = European IS
5000. upon receipt Of which sum papers
are signed by tho parents or guardians
releasing their claim, marriage with
her being optional with the purchaser
= large number Of those markotablc
girls lave boon purchased for a psltry
sum in infancy from impoverished
mo'hcrs and aro brought up by some
OH ias 60 bc SOD OF maturity 10 tho
highest bidder. 81 Louis Republican.
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Ihcn the 49, 80. 49,,

\ physician living on the seaboard
thus writes: within tho last five years.
m district embracing sixty square
miles or so by the sea, have noted the
hour aud the minute Of no less ihan
nincty-thres demisos 10 my own imme.
diatc practice, and every soul Of them
has gone out with tho tide. save four
who died suddenly by fatal accidcpl. 49,
Medical Press.
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The former proprietor Of DIR. Sars's catarrh
Remedy for years trade a standing. public Of
fer In all American fiewsrr,crs OF 500 reward
for case OF catarrh that he cor'd oct cure.
The present proprletofs have renewed this ~
fer. All the druggists sell this Remedy. togeth-
er with tho ~Douche," and all other appliances
catarrh patient il longer able TO say II cannot
DO cured" You get $40 in case of failure.
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from an aesthetic point of view, any
kind Of reticule-even one OF the plain
est pattern-will be preferable to those
monstrosities in leather called shopping
bags, and which are to be placed in the
same category as ulsters and rubber
cloaks.-[ Washington Post.